Selections from the acoustics meeting include personal listening zones in cars and how skull size affects music tastes, presented June 2-7 in Montreal

By Meghan Rosen, 18:06 PM June 10, 2013

Audio zones in cars

Using modified speakers in a car’s headrests and a new way to filter
sound, Jordan Cheer and Stephen Elliott at the University of Southampton
in England have created distinct listening zones for the front and back
seats of a car. The team replaced the wooden backs of speakers with
rectangles of metal gauze to focus sound toward passengers’ ears.
Altering the volume and time delay of certain sounds confined sounds to
particular zones in a car, Cheer said June ...